Monthaven Art and Cultural Center

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The MACC presents a dozen local, regional and international exhibitions every year. Admission is free. Donations are appreciated and contribute to continued arts programming.

Paintings by Steve Wariner

The Flip Side

Steve Wariner is well known to true-blue country music fans. Over the course of a 50-plus-year music career, the famed songwriter and instrumentalist sent more than a dozen songs to the top of the country music charts. Less well known is Wariner’s parallel passion for painting.

Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center will shine a spotlight on Wariner’s visual art works in The Flip Side: Paintings by Steve Wariner. The exhibit will feature 60 of Wariner’s works in oil, acrylic, watercolor and mixed media. It will be the most prominent display of Wariner’s artworks since 2013’s Wariner’s Watercolors at the Tennessee State Museum.

Wariner has pursued painting with alacrity since childhood. Growing up in suburban Indiana, he was inspired to paint by his brother David, a gifted professional artist known for his book and album-cover illustrations. Wariner was especially attracted to watercolor.

Wariner’s watercolor style is loose and spontaneous, resulting in images he refers to as “washy.” His preferred subjects often reflect the people and places he has seen during his many travels as a musician. Rural landscapes, seascapes, portraits and guitars often figure prominently in his paintings. Another focus are his paintings of musicians, like the club singer and jazz trio seen in his watercolor “The Crooning.”

Interestingly, he resisted painting in oil for years. But starting in 2020, he began to experiment. Oil paintings like his “Purple Presence” are richly layered and textured, with the artist sometimes spending weeks on one work. Wariner now works in multiple mediums, from oil to encaustic. He also seems perfectly at home painting works that are both representational and abstract.

For more information about The Flip Side, call (615) 822-0789.

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Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center presents some of the world’s greatest art in galleries that are intimate and inviting.  Subscribe to our newsletter and discover the magic that awaits.

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Second Annual MACC Student Art Exhibition

Created Here

Every year, students from Sumner County and beyond walk through the doors of Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center, enrolling in homeschool and after-school classes as well as summer camps. These students get to explore traditional mediums such as drawing, painting, sculpture, mixed media and digital art, along with more unique classes like doll-house making, comic book illustration, anime and sumi ink.

A selection of artworks from these students will be on display in the second annual MACC student art exhibition, which is titled Created Here. In total, there are more than 30 pieces on display in the MACC’s Papillon Gallery from students ages 6 and up.

Eva Rabin, the MACC’s arts education coordinator, is serving as curator for the exhibit. The MACC’s talented teachers, who are artists themselves, have worked hard to select the art that will be on display. Like the James B. Hawkins Sumner County Student Art Show, which occurs every spring, the second annual Created Here exhibition will feature a variety of mediums, including drawing, painting, sculpture and mixed media.

It has been a thrill to watch these students grow and develop as artists, and the MACC is proud to showcase their accomplishments. For more information about Created Here, call (615) 822-0789.

Celebrating America’s 250th with the Art of Tim Yanke and Manuel

For the Love of Liberty

The MACC is celebrating America’s 250th Anniversary with a special Eighth Annual Veterans Art Exhibition highlighting the works of some of America’s greatest living artists. The exhibit, titled For the Love of Liberty, will include Tim Yanke’s American flag paintings along with the acclaimed fashion designer Manuel’s state jackets honoring the original 13 colonies. The MACC is presenting For the Love of Liberty in partnership with the Park West Foundation.

Best known for his abstract artwork, Yanke has created a series of U.S. flag paintings that he refers to as (what else?) “Yanke Doodles.” The inspiration for these works came to him following the tragic events of 9/11. In creating the paintings, he started to experiment with non-traditional colors for the flag. These variegated hues represent the different cultures, countries and communities who have come to find a home in America. In some of the Yanke Doodles there is also a Vietnam service ribbon intertwined, a nod to the U.S. military veterans who served in the Vietnam War. For the Love of Liberty will include these flags along with other works the artist has created to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary.

Manuel is world-renowned as the Couturier to the Stars. In 2005, he debuted at the Frist Art Museum a fantabulous series of 50 colorfully decorated jackets, one for each U.S. state. For his exhibition at Monthaven, he will showcase the jackets that correspond to the original 13 colonies. Each of these jackets contain images that reflect the state’s history and character.

The Gallatin-based artist Don Olea, who was the featured artist for the MACC’s 7th Annual Veterans Art Exhibition, will also display some of his works celebrating the founding of the United States. Finally, military veterans enrolled in the MACC’s Between the Lines healing arts program will display their art in an exhibit titled I Didn’t Know How to Tell You. For more information, call (615) 822-0789.

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The Paintings of Revi Ferrer and Photography of Tim West

Love Your Wild

Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center captures the untamed spirit of the American West in the exhibition Love Your Wild: The Paintings of Revi Ferrer and Photography of Tim West. Presented in partnership with Forever Branded, a national nonprofit that has helped relocate more than 20,000 wild horses, the exhibit features nearly 60 paintings and photographs celebrating the power, beauty and fragility of America’s wild mustangs.

West, a Tennessee-based fine arts photographer, has spent the past several years roaming the landscapes of Wyoming, Colorado and Utah to photograph iconic mustangs and wild burros. His evocative images capture the quiet beauty of these animals, inviting viewers into moments that are both intimate and timeless. Through a distinctive artistic approach that blends technical precision with creative interpretation, West’s photography celebrates authenticity and fosters a deeper appreciation for the natural world.

Nashville artist Revi Ferrer creates vivid images of a different kind of horsepower. Her depictions of sportscars, wine bottles, wristwatches and other objects are remarkable for their photorealism. But Ferrer’s art delves deeper, exploring the ways these cars and other objects become connected to memory, ambition, achievement and personal legacy. For Love Your Wild, Ferrer will also showcase some of her deeply felt Western paintings.

A portion of all artwork sales from Love Your Wild will benefit the MACC and Forever Branded, helping support arts programming, cultural enrichment and ongoing rescue and relocation efforts of America’s wild horses. For more information, call (615) 822-0789.

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Robin Willis

HEALING ARTS COORDINATOR

Robin Willis is the MACC’s Healing Arts Coordinator. She also works as the Exhibition and Events Manager and Director of Outreach. Robin has a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Clemson University with a minor in Entrepreneurship. She is a multi-discipline artist with emphasis in writing, mixed media abstract painting, alternative process photography, collage, and book arts and binding. In addition to her art practices, she holds several healing modalities certificates, such as extensive kundalini yoga teacher training and education, Reiki master, systemic family constellation facilitator, and depth psychology-based therapy trainings. As an avid learner, she explores and encourages others in their exploration in art, psyche, and our relationship to the micro and macro worlds within and around us. Influenced by John Muir’s quote, When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe, she fuses art, healing, and organization throughout her work and personal life as a creative-scientist minded person.

Kaylin Warden

Creative Design and Operations Manager

Kaylin Warden serves as the MACC’s Creative Design and Operations Manager. In this post, she oversees the organization’s graphic design work for exhibitions, events and special projects. She also coordinates the MACC’s arts outreach activities and assists with bookkeeping, among other duties. Kaylin, above all, is passionate about the arts. It comes as no surprise, then, that she is now pursuing a master’s degree in art history. When she’s not at the MACC, you can find her reading her favorite books (especially ones dealing with maritime mysteries), cooking, gardening, playing with her cat and two dogs, and cheering for the Nashville Predators.

Ruth Chase

Regional Arts Director
Ruth Chase is the Regional Arts Director of Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center, joining the team in 2023. For Ruth, the job is all about community, bringing people together to uplift and educate artists and art lovers alike. Her role at Monthaven is to strengthen the local artist community and build connections that will enrich Hendersonville and our surrounding communities through art exhibitions, art education, and opportunities for regional artists.
 
Prior to joining Monthaven, Ruth worked in the arts for over 30 years and is a multimedia artist and graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute. Her artistic practice is inquiry-based and engages in community bridge-building. She was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation from the City of Los Angeles, curated and juried exhibitions, and has taught at the Crocker Art Museum.
 
Ruth was awarded an Artist-in-Residence for Artist Activating Communities through a grant from the California Arts Council for three consecutive years. Her film Belonging screened at both the 18th Annual Nevada City Film Festival and Wild & Scenic Film Festival. She has received the Legendary Female Artist of Venice award, and she has exhibited in The Crocker Kingsley, the Museum of Northern California Art, and the Diego Rivera Gallery at the San Francisco Art Institute. Ruth also continues her work as a Curatorial Consultant and Art director for the Californian Indigenous Research Project, where she has worked with the local tribe since 2018. 
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